William smith



W LLIAM SMITH, or NHV YORK, N, Y.

Letters Patent No. 79,269, dated June 23, 1868 IMPROVEMENT INBOOK-BINDING.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: v

Be it. known that I, WILLIAM SMITH, of the city, county, and State ofNew Yorl ,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Binding ofBooks? and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, which will enable others skilled in theart to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to that class of binding for books inwhich, at suitable points of the length of the books, a. tape or stripof cloth or other suitable material is passed through the several leavesof the hook, and then such tapes, by their loose ends, secured to theouter side of the board covers to the book. v

And this invention consists in securing the loose ends of the tapes, theone to the inner, and the otherv to the outer side of the book boardcovers, thus confining the board covers between the two or the severaltapes, and producing a most perfect, strdng, secure, firm, and rigidattachment of the'covers to the leaves, and one which, for school-booksmore especially, will be of the utmost advantage and importance.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, my improvement in the binding ofbooks is illustrated- Figure 1 being an outside'view of the front coverto a book bound according thereto, and

Figure 2 a transverse section, taken in the plane of the line a: :v,fig. 1. I v

A A, in the drawings, represent the several leaves to a. book, which,for being bound, are first prepared as is the practice now in thcbinding of books,- and in addition thereto, in the present instance,punched at or near their back edge, B, with two holes or slits, C, of awidthpr length suitable to receive tapes D, which may he of cloth,leather, or any other material suitable.

Through each slit 0 two of the tapes D are passed, and then betweentheir loose ends, on each side of the leaves, the cover-boards E areplaced, and to them'th e ends of the tapes are secured; thus, as one isupon the outer, and the other upon the inner side of the covers, thecovers are confined and held between them, after which the backing, F,is applied in the ordinary manner.

By confining the cover within and between the tapes D, as abovedescribed, it is obvious that thus a inore perfect, sti'o'ng, durable,and reliable attachment of the covers to the leaves is obtained thanwhen the covers are simply held by tapes that are applied only to one ofthe sides of the covers.

In lieu of passing two tapes through each hole or slit of the deaves, aseparate slit may be made foreach tape, and tapes of a greater or lesswidth'tnay be employed, and therefore, in the present invention, I donot;

intend to limit myself to any particular number of tapcsused, nor to anyparticular width of the sanie,;the invention consisting only in thesecuring the tapes to the covers, uponboth sides thereof, as has beenhereinabove described. 1

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim, is-

A book, when it has its covers secured to its leaves by'ta-pcs, or theirequivalents, that are. passed through the leaves, and then their looseends fastcnezl'to both the outer and inner sides of the covers,substantially as described.

W. SMITH.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. Buowx, H. L. WATTENBERG.

